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Acceptance
Respecting neurodivergent people as they are while supporting access, wellbeing and individual needs.
Explore Acceptance →Access needs
The practical supports, changes or conditions that help a person participate more comfortably and fairly.
Explore Access needs →Accommodations / Adjustments
Changes to environments, communication, schedules or expectations that reduce barriers.
Explore Accommodations / Adjustments →ADHD
A neurodevelopmental condition that can affect attention, activity, impulse control, motivation, emotions, working memory and executive function.
Explore ADHD →Advocacy
Speaking up or taking action so needs, rights, perspectives and access barriers are heard and addressed.
Explore Advocacy →Anxiety in neurodivergent people
Anxiety can occur alongside neurodivergence and may be influenced by sensory load, uncertainty, masking, past experiences or everyday demands.
Explore Anxiety in neurodivergent people →Autism
A lifelong neurodevelopmental difference involving patterns of communication, sensory processing, interests, routines and ways of experiencing the world.
Explore Autism →Autistic burnout
A state of profound exhaustion and reduced capacity associated with prolonged demands, masking, stress or mismatch between needs and environment.
Explore Autistic burnout →AuDHD
A community term commonly used by people who are both autistic and ADHD.
Explore AuDHD →Ableism
Prejudice, discrimination or systems that disadvantage disabled people or treat non-disabled ways of living as the default.
Explore Ableism →AAC / Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Communication methods that supplement or replace speech, including communication devices, symbol systems, typing and other tools.
Explore AAC / Augmentative and Alternative Communication →Alexithymia
Difficulty identifying, distinguishing or describing emotions. It can occur in neurodivergent and non-neurodivergent people.
Explore Alexithymia →Attention regulation
The ability to direct, sustain, shift or disengage attention. Attention can be interest-based, variable or effortful for some neurodivergent people.
Explore Attention regulation →Auditory sensitivity
Heightened sensitivity to sounds such as volume, pitch, repetition, background noise or sudden noises.
Explore Auditory sensitivity →B
Belonging
Feeling accepted, respected and able to participate without having to hide important parts of yourself.
Explore Belonging →Body signals / Interoception
Awareness of internal body signals such as hunger, thirst, temperature, heartbeat or needing the bathroom.
Explore Body signals / Interoception →Burnout
Deep exhaustion and reduced capacity after prolonged stress or demands; the pattern can differ between autistic burnout and other forms of burnout.
Explore Burnout →Body doubling
Doing a task alongside another person, in person or remotely, to support starting, focus or follow-through.
Explore Body doubling →Bottom-up processing
Building understanding from incoming details or sensory information before forming a broader interpretation. Processing patterns vary between people and tasks.
Explore Bottom-up processing →Behaviour as communication
The idea that actions can reflect needs, distress, sensory load, communication barriers or unmet support needs rather than simply being treated as deliberate misbehaviour.
Explore Behaviour as communication →C
Camouflaging / Masking
Consciously or unconsciously hiding, suppressing or changing traits to fit expectations or avoid negative reactions.
Explore Camouflaging / Masking →Co-occurring conditions
Conditions that exist alongside neurodivergence, such as anxiety, depression, epilepsy, sleep problems or chronic health conditions.
Explore Co-occurring conditions →Communication differences
Different ways of understanding, expressing and exchanging information, including speech, writing, AAC, gesture and other communication methods.
Explore Communication differences →Community
People, groups and spaces where neurodivergent people can connect, share experiences and belong.
Explore Community →Co-regulation
Using safe connection, support or shared strategies with another person to help regulation, calm or recovery.
Explore Co-regulation →Cognitive accessibility
Making information, systems and environments easier to understand, navigate, remember and use for people with different cognitive and processing needs.
Explore Cognitive accessibility →Communication access
Supports and conditions that help a person understand and express information, such as AAC, written options, direct language or extra processing time.
Explore Communication access →Compensation strategies
Ways a person works around a difficulty by using routines, scripts, technology, external reminders or other learned supports.
Explore Compensation strategies →Context switching
Moving attention and mental set from one task, topic, environment or set of expectations to another.
Explore Context switching →D
Demand avoidance
Difficulty responding to demands, expectations or loss of autonomy; the reasons and patterns can vary between individuals.
Explore Demand avoidance →Diagnosis
A formal clinical identification based on recognised criteria, history and assessment; diagnosis can provide understanding, validation or access to support.
Explore Diagnosis →Disability
A broad term that can describe impairments or conditions interacting with barriers in society and the environment.
Explore Disability →Dyscalculia
A learning difference that can affect understanding and working with numbers, quantities or mathematical concepts.
Explore Dyscalculia →Dysgraphia
A term used for significant difficulties with written expression or handwriting-related skills; definitions and diagnostic use vary by country.
Explore Dysgraphia →Dyslexia
A specific learning difference that commonly affects accurate or fluent word reading, spelling and decoding.
Explore Dyslexia →Dyspraxia / DCD
Developmental Coordination Disorder affects motor coordination and the learning or performance of movement-based tasks.
Explore Dyspraxia / DCD →Double empathy problem
A theory proposing that communication difficulties between autistic and non-autistic people can arise from differences in experience and mutual understanding, rather than a one-sided lack of empathy.
Explore Double empathy problem →Dynamic disability
A community term used when disability, access needs or functional capacity can vary over time or across environments.
Explore Dynamic disability →Direct communication
Communication that makes meaning, expectations or requests explicit rather than relying heavily on hints, inference or unwritten social rules.
Explore Direct communication →E
Education inclusion
Designing learning so neurodivergent students can access, participate and progress without unnecessary barriers.
Explore Education inclusion →Emotional regulation
Processes involved in noticing, understanding and responding to emotions; regulation can look different across people and situations.
Explore Emotional regulation →Energy management
Planning activity, rest and recovery around available energy rather than assuming capacity is constant.
Explore Energy management →Executive dysfunction
Difficulty with starting, planning, organising, switching, remembering or completing tasks despite understanding what needs to be done.
Explore Executive dysfunction →Executive function
Mental processes involved in planning, organising, remembering steps, managing time, shifting attention and regulating actions.
Explore Executive function →Echolalia
Repeating words or phrases heard previously or recently. Echolalia can serve communication, processing, regulation or language-learning functions.
Explore Echolalia →Empathy differences
People can experience, interpret or express empathy in different ways. Communication style should not be used as a simple measure of whether someone cares.
Explore Empathy differences →Environmental fit
How well an environment matches a person’s sensory, communication, executive-function and participation needs.
Explore Environmental fit →Energy accounting
Tracking activities that use or restore energy to support pacing, planning and recovery. The specific method can vary by person.
Explore Energy accounting →F
Fatigue
Physical, cognitive, emotional or sensory exhaustion that can reduce capacity for everyday tasks and participation.
Explore Fatigue →Focus
Attention can be variable, interest-based, effortful or intense; different environments and supports can change how focus works.
Explore Focus →Friendship
Neurodivergent friendships may involve different communication patterns, shared interests, energy needs and expectations.
Explore Friendship →Fidgeting
Small repeated movements or object use that may support attention, sensory regulation or comfort for some people.
Explore Fidgeting →Flexible thinking
The ability to consider alternatives, adapt to change or shift approach. Flexibility can be affected by stress, uncertainty and executive-function demands.
Explore Flexible thinking →Flow state
A period of deep engagement in an activity where attention feels highly absorbed. Flow is not unique to neurodivergence.
Explore Flow state →G
Giftedness / Twice-exceptionality
Some people are both gifted and disabled or neurodivergent; strengths and support needs can exist together.
Explore Giftedness / Twice-exceptionality →Gender diversity & neurodivergence
Gender identity and neurodivergence can intersect in individual ways. Neither determines the other, and respectful self-described language matters.
Explore Gender diversity & neurodivergence →Gestalt language processing
A framework used by some clinicians and communities to describe language learned or used in larger chunks or phrases. Terminology and evidence around the framework continue to be discussed.
Explore Gestalt language processing →H
Hyperfocus
A period of intense attention on an activity or interest that can make switching or noticing other needs difficult.
Explore Hyperfocus →Hypersensitivity
Heightened sensitivity to sensory input such as sound, light, touch, smell, taste or movement.
Explore Hypersensitivity →Hyposensitivity
Reduced awareness or response to certain sensory input, sometimes leading a person to seek stronger input.
Explore Hyposensitivity →Hyperactivity
A pattern of high activity, movement, restlessness or internal mental activity that can be part of ADHD and can look different across people.
Explore Hyperactivity →Hyperlexia
Advanced or intense interest in reading or decoding words relative to other areas of development; comprehension and support needs can vary.
Explore Hyperlexia →I
Identity
How someone understands and describes who they are, including whether neurodivergence is an important part of their identity.
Explore Identity →Inclusive design
Designing spaces, systems, information and services for a wide range of people from the beginning.
Explore Inclusive design →Inclusion
Actively reducing barriers so people can participate, contribute and belong.
Explore Inclusion →Interoception
The sensory system involved in noticing signals from inside the body.
Explore Interoception →Intersectionality
How different identities and social factors can overlap and shape experiences of advantage, disadvantage, access or discrimination.
Explore Intersectionality →Identity-first language
Language that places an identity before the person noun, such as “autistic person.” Preferences differ, so individual choice should be respected.
Explore Identity-first language →Inertia
Difficulty starting, stopping or changing an activity or state, even when the person wants to make the transition.
Explore Inertia →Information processing
How information is noticed, organised, interpreted, stored and responded to. Processing patterns can differ across sensory, language and cognitive tasks.
Explore Information processing →Impulsivity
Acting or responding quickly with less time between an impulse and action. It can be part of ADHD but varies widely between people and situations.
Explore Impulsivity →J
Job accommodations
Changes that reduce workplace barriers, such as communication adjustments, sensory changes, flexible scheduling or task supports.
Explore Job accommodations →Job coaching
Practical employment support that may help with job tasks, routines, communication, workplace expectations or transitions.
Explore Job coaching →Job transitions
Changes such as starting, changing or leaving a job that can involve new routines, environments, expectations and support needs.
Explore Job transitions →K
Knowledge through lived experience
Understanding gained from personally living with neurodivergence, disability, support systems or access barriers.
Explore Knowledge through lived experience →Knowledge access
Being able to find, understand and use information in formats that match communication, processing and accessibility needs.
Explore Knowledge access →Kinesthetic / movement-based learning
Learning that includes movement, doing or hands-on practice. It can be useful for some tasks without implying that a person has one fixed learning style.
Explore Kinesthetic / movement-based learning →L
Late diagnosis
Receiving a diagnosis later in adolescence or adulthood, sometimes after years of misunderstanding, masking or unmet needs.
Explore Late diagnosis →Learning differences
Differences in how a person takes in, processes, remembers or expresses information.
Explore Learning differences →Lived experience
Knowledge, insight and perspective gained by personally experiencing neurodivergence and its everyday impacts.
Explore Lived experience →Low-stim environments
Spaces designed to reduce sensory load, visual clutter, noise, movement or other stimulation.
Explore Low-stim environments →Language preferences
The words a person prefers for describing neurodivergence, disability and identity. Preferences can differ between individuals and communities.
Explore Language preferences →Literal language
Language understood close to its direct or surface meaning. Figurative, implied or ambiguous language may require extra context for some people.
Explore Literal language →Low-demand approaches
Approaches that reduce unnecessary pressure, increase collaboration or choice, and adjust demands to current capacity and context.
Explore Low-demand approaches →M
Masking
Changing or suppressing traits or behaviours to appear more typical or avoid negative judgement.
Explore Masking →Meltdown
An intense involuntary response to overwhelm or overload that can involve loss of usual coping or communication capacity.
Explore Meltdown →Mental health
Emotional, psychological and social wellbeing, including how a person feels, copes, relates and functions.
Explore Mental health →Monotropism
A theory describing a tendency toward concentrated attention on a smaller number of interests or demands at a time; often discussed in relation to autism.
Explore Monotropism →Motivation regulation
The processes involved in starting and sustaining effort. Motivation can be affected by interest, reward, urgency, energy, executive function and environment.
Explore Motivation regulation →Motor planning
Planning and organising body movements needed to complete an action or sequence of actions.
Explore Motor planning →Movement needs
A need or preference for movement that may support alertness, regulation, comfort or concentration.
Explore Movement needs →Mutual understanding
Shared understanding built between people through accessible communication, clarification and respect for different perspectives.
Explore Mutual understanding →N
Neurodivergence
A broad concept describing brains or nervous systems that differ from dominant or typical patterns.
Explore Neurodivergence →Neurodivergent
An adjective commonly used for a person whose brain or nervous system differs from dominant or typical patterns.
Explore Neurodivergent →Neurodiversity
The natural variation in human brains and nervous systems across the population.
Explore Neurodiversity →Neuroaffirming
An approach that respects neurodivergent ways of thinking, communicating and regulating while supporting real needs.
Explore Neuroaffirming →Non-speaking communication
Communication without spoken language, including AAC, typing, gesture, symbols and other methods.
Explore Non-speaking communication →Neurodevelopmental condition
A broad clinical category for conditions involving development of the brain or nervous system, including autism and ADHD.
Explore Neurodevelopmental condition →Neurodiversity paradigm
A framework that understands neurological variation as part of human diversity while still recognising disability, barriers and support needs.
Explore Neurodiversity paradigm →Neurotypical
A commonly used term for people whose neurological development and functioning broadly align with dominant expectations; usage varies by context.
Explore Neurotypical →Neurotype
An informal umbrella term used to describe a person’s neurological profile or way of processing and experiencing the world.
Explore Neurotype →O
Overload
When sensory, emotional, cognitive or environmental demands exceed a person’s current capacity to process them comfortably.
Explore Overload →Overwhelm
Feeling that demands, information, emotions or tasks have become too much to manage at that moment.
Explore Overwhelm →Occupational therapy
A health profession that can support participation in everyday activities, routines, sensory needs, environments and practical skills. Approaches vary by practitioner and setting.
Explore Occupational therapy →Organisational supports
External systems such as checklists, visual schedules, calendars, reminders and structured workspaces that reduce planning and memory load.
Explore Organisational supports →Overstimulation
An informal term for feeling overloaded by sensory, cognitive, social or environmental input.
Explore Overstimulation →P
Pacing
Balancing activity, demands and recovery to help reduce exhaustion and support sustainable participation.
Explore Pacing →Participation
Being able to take part meaningfully in work, learning, services, relationships or community life.
Explore Participation →Pathological Demand Avoidance / PDA terminology
A contested term used by some clinicians and communities to describe an extreme or persistent demand-avoidant profile; recognition and terminology vary by country and service.
Explore Pathological Demand Avoidance / PDA terminology →Peer support
Support from people who share relevant lived experience or identity.
Explore Peer support →Processing time
Extra time needed to understand information, organise a response or shift between tasks or ideas.
Explore Processing time →Proprioception
The sense that helps the brain understand body position, movement and force.
Explore Proprioception →Person-first language
Language that places the person before a condition or identity, such as “person with ADHD.” Preferences vary and individual choice should be respected.
Explore Person-first language →Predictability
Knowing what to expect about events, routines, communication or changes. Predictability can reduce uncertainty and planning load for some people.
Explore Predictability →Pressure sensitivity
A descriptive phrase for situations where urgency, observation, demands or perceived pressure make thinking, communication or task initiation harder.
Explore Pressure sensitivity →Q
Quality of life
A broad measure of wellbeing across health, autonomy, relationships, safety, participation and everyday living.
Explore Quality of life →Questions & clarification
Asking for examples, rewording, written information or more context when communication or expectations are unclear.
Explore Questions & clarification →Queer & neurodivergent identities
LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent identities can intersect in individual ways, shaping belonging, access and lived experience without one identity causing the other.
Explore Queer & neurodivergent identities →R
Reasonable adjustments
Changes made to reduce disability-related barriers in work, education or services; legal wording varies by country.
Explore Reasonable adjustments →Recovery time
Time and reduced demands that may be needed after sensory, social, cognitive or emotional exertion.
Explore Recovery time →Routines
Predictable sequences or patterns that can support organisation, regulation, memory and a sense of control.
Explore Routines →Regulation
Processes that help a person maintain or return to a workable level of sensory, emotional, cognitive or physical arousal.
Explore Regulation →Rejection sensitivity
A community term often used for intense distress around perceived or actual rejection or criticism. “RSD” is not a standalone formal diagnosis.
Explore Rejection sensitivity →Rest as support
Recognising rest, lower-demand time and recovery as legitimate supports for energy, regulation and sustainable participation.
Explore Rest as support →S
School accommodations
Changes that help learners access teaching, assessment, communication, sensory environments and participation.
Explore School accommodations →Self-advocacy
Communicating your own needs, preferences, rights and choices, with or without support.
Explore Self-advocacy →Sensory overload
Distress or reduced functioning when sensory input becomes more intense or numerous than a person can comfortably process.
Explore Sensory overload →Sensory processing
How the nervous system receives, organises and responds to sensory information.
Explore Sensory processing →Sensory seeking
Actively looking for stronger sensory input such as movement, pressure, sound, texture or visual stimulation.
Explore Sensory seeking →Shutdown
A reduced-response state that can occur during overload or exhaustion and may involve less speech, movement or interaction.
Explore Shutdown →Special interests
Deep, focused interests that can bring joy, knowledge, regulation, identity, skill and connection.
Explore Special interests →Stimming
Repetitive movements, sounds, words or actions that may support regulation, expression, focus or sensory needs.
Explore Stimming →Strengths-based support
Support that recognises abilities and interests while still taking real barriers and support needs seriously.
Explore Strengths-based support →Sensory accommodations
Changes that reduce sensory barriers, such as quieter spaces, lighting adjustments, movement options or permission to use sensory supports.
Explore Sensory accommodations →Sensory profile
The individual pattern of sensory sensitivities, preferences, seeking, avoidance and regulation needs a person may experience.
Explore Sensory profile →Social communication
The ways people use and interpret language, tone, gesture, timing, context and social information. Styles differ across people and cultures.
Explore Social communication →Social model of disability
A framework emphasising that disability is created or increased by barriers in environments, systems and attitudes, not only by an individual condition.
Explore Social model of disability →Speech differences
Differences in speech production, fluency, volume, prosody or spoken-language use that may affect communication access.
Explore Speech differences →T
Task initiation
The executive-function process involved in beginning a task, even when the person understands what to do.
Explore Task initiation →Time blindness
A community term for difficulty sensing, estimating or managing the passage of time.
Explore Time blindness →Transitions
Moving between activities, places, expectations or states; transitions can require extra preparation or recovery.
Explore Transitions →Tourette syndrome
A neurodevelopmental condition characterised by multiple motor tics and at least one vocal tic over time.
Explore Tourette syndrome →Twice-exceptional / 2e
A term commonly used for people who are both gifted and disabled, neurodivergent or otherwise eligible for learning support.
Explore Twice-exceptional / 2e →Task switching
Moving attention and action from one task to another, which can require additional executive-function effort and transition time.
Explore Task switching →Tics
Sudden, repetitive movements or sounds that can occur in tic disorders and Tourette syndrome. Tics can vary in frequency and intensity.
Explore Tics →Top-down processing
Using prior knowledge, expectations or context to interpret incoming information. People can use different balances of top-down and bottom-up processing.
Explore Top-down processing →U
Universal design
Designing environments, services and information so they work for as many people as possible from the start.
Explore Universal design →Unmasking
Reducing the need to hide or suppress neurodivergent traits in safer, more accepting contexts.
Explore Unmasking →Uneven / spiky skill profile
A pattern where strengths and difficulties vary significantly across different skills rather than forming one even level of ability.
Explore Uneven / spiky skill profile →Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
A framework for designing learning with multiple ways to engage, access information and demonstrate learning.
Explore Universal Design for Learning (UDL) →V
Visual supports
Pictures, symbols, schedules, written steps or other visual information that can support understanding, memory and predictability.
Explore Visual supports →Vocational support
Support related to employment, training, workplace access, job preparation and sustainable participation.
Explore Vocational support →Verbal processing
Making sense of information through spoken language. Some people process spoken information more easily than others or need written support alongside it.
Explore Verbal processing →Vestibular system
The sensory system involved in balance, movement and spatial orientation.
Explore Vestibular system →Visual thinking
Thinking strongly through images, spatial relationships or visual patterns. It is one possible cognitive style rather than a universal neurodivergent trait.
Explore Visual thinking →W
Wellbeing
A broad sense of physical, emotional, social and everyday wellness.
Explore Wellbeing →Working memory
The ability to hold and use information briefly while completing a task or following steps.
Explore Working memory →Workplace inclusion
Practices that help neurodivergent people participate fairly at work through accessible recruitment, communication, adjustments and culture.
Explore Workplace inclusion →Waiting mode
An informal community phrase for difficulty starting other activities while anticipating a later appointment, event or transition.
Explore Waiting mode →Workplace accommodations
Changes that reduce workplace barriers, such as communication adjustments, sensory changes, flexible scheduling or task supports.
Explore Workplace accommodations →Written communication
Using text, email, chat, notes or other written formats to exchange information; written options can improve communication access for some people.
Explore Written communication →X
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Young neurodivergent people
Children and teenagers may need age-appropriate support that respects development, identity, communication, autonomy and family context.
Explore Young neurodivergent people →Your neurodivergent profile
A non-clinical way to describe the individual combination of strengths, barriers, sensory patterns, communication preferences and support needs that matter to you.
Explore Your neurodivergent profile →Youth transitions
Changes from school into further education, training, employment or greater independence that may require planning, accessible information and support.
Explore Youth transitions →Z
Zones of comfort / sensory safety
A non-clinical way to think about environments, routines and supports that help a person feel regulated enough to participate.
Explore Zones of comfort / sensory safety →Zoning out / attention lapses
An informal phrase for periods when attention drifts or awareness of the current task reduces. This can have many causes and is not specific to one diagnosis.
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Autism, ADHD & AuDHD
Different profiles
Autism and ADHD are distinct neurodevelopmental conditions, but they can coexist and interact in individual ways.
AuDHD experiences
People who are both autistic and ADHD may experience apparently competing needs around routine, novelty, focus, stimulation and energy.
Late identification
Some people reach adulthood before their neurodivergence is recognised, particularly when masking or compensating has hidden support needs.
Strengths and disability
Capability and disability can coexist. Recognising strengths should not be used to minimise genuine barriers or support needs.
Co-occurring conditions
Mental health, sleep, chronic illness, epilepsy, learning differences and other conditions may be relevant to a person’s overall support.
No single presentation
People with the same diagnosis can have very different sensory, communication, executive-function, social and everyday experiences.
Everyday processing, communication & executive function
Sensory systems
Neurodivergence can affect how sound, light, touch, movement, smell, taste and internal body signals are noticed and processed.
Communication access
Written communication, AAC, direct language, processing time and reduced social pressure can make communication more accessible.
Executive function
Planning, switching, remembering, starting, organising and estimating time can require supports even when the person understands the task.
Regulation
Movement, sensory input, routines, interests, rest and predictable communication can all contribute to regulation.
Overload
High sensory, cognitive, emotional or social demand can reduce capacity and increase the need for space, recovery and fewer demands.
Different tools for different people
No single planner, sensory tool, therapy, routine or strategy will suit every neurodivergent person.
Learning, identity & belonging
Different ways of learning
People may learn best through visuals, repetition, movement, written instructions, practical experience, special interests or other combinations.
Identity matters
For some people neurodivergence is an important part of identity; others prefer to focus on a diagnosis or use different language.
Belonging matters too
Neurodivergent people should not have to perform a more typical version of themselves to deserve inclusion and connection.
Education access
Predictability, sensory support, flexible communication and appropriate adjustments can reduce barriers to learning.
Lived experience
People directly affected by neurodivergence should have meaningful input into information, services, policies and resources.
Community & peer connection
Meeting others with similar experiences can provide understanding, language, practical ideas and a stronger sense of belonging.
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